November 2007 - Posts
What’s New: SharePoint Expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata SharePoint is all the buzz. You can find out how ISV applications can benefit. Spend a few minutes with SharePoint expert Mauro Cardarelli from Jornata as he talks with Jason De Lorme at Microsoft
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The Microsoft ESB Guidance extends the functionality of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to provide a range of new capabilities focused on building robust, connected, service-oriented applications. The following are some of the core capabilities that the ESB Guidance
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Office Developer Conference 2008 You won’t want to miss the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference 2008, coming to the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA, February 10-13, 2008. Bill Gates will be there – how about you? To learn more and
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Free tools are now available to test your applications for Windows Server 2008 compatibility. These tools are available by enrolling with the Innovate on Windows Server 2008 site. This development portal includes key marketing information and resources
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Although there won't be any future versions of Acropolis , the team has released the final community technology preview (CTP) online. There is an ongoing forum, code, documentation, and samples available for those who may be interested. Perhaps I am over
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The Patterns & Practices team has released two new documents. The first is a guide to help you get the most out of Team Foundation Server. The second will aid all of you web application developers who have been looking for better ways
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Be sure to sign up for the launch briefings for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0! Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Launch Tour 2008 – ISV Opportunities Nov 30, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Attend this Live Meeting to get an overview of the U.S. Dynamics CRM 4.0 launch and
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You can now construct your web services using visual tools. The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Windows Communications
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By now I'm sure you have all heard that Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'd and is available for MSDN subscribers to download in the MSDN download center. If you are also interested in developing Silverlight 1.1 applications in .NET you have no doubt found
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Ben Riga has been highlighting a number of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 videos on channel9.msdn.com. Check them out at these links: http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2007/11/15/phil-richardson-chats-up-crm-on-channel-9.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2007/11/16/phil-dives-deep-into-crm-4-0-on-channel-9.aspx
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Attend this webcast on Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:00 PM ET to get an overview of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 launch and find out more about the opportunities for engagement for ISV partners including sponsorships for the 2008 Launch Tour. For more details
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For ISVs that still have code in VB6 and are planning to migrate VB.Net 2005. Code Architects are in process of releasing VB Migration Partner tool. The tool can convert VB6 applications to VB.NET. It offers tons of improvements over other migration utilities
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As ISV's began to think about designing "multi-tenancy" into their products, they often struggle with what the performance implications will be of the various design choices they face in making multi-tenancy a reality. There is an architecture team at
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The latest architecture for building S+S application has been released. This release extends LitwareHR, our reference S+S application and provides guidance on the full spectrum of client, server, and service. This release has been named Litware V2 , a
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Many of you were glad to see us announce the Visual Studio Shell as an option for the development and customization tools you ship with your products. Well I am happy to share that the Visual Studio Extensibility team has released the first version of
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Microsoft announces the commoditization of Enterprise Search space with Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSS Express). In delivering MSS Express, Microsoft has taken the enterprise-class search capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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You will have to forgive the Steve Martin reference, but I am really excited that the SQL Server 2008 November CTP has finally shipped! Check out the Connect site for all the latest, including links to the download and this great interactive "What's new"
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Start pointing your browsers at MSDN and grab the RTM bits of VS 2008 & .NET 3.5, they've shipped !! Read more about the RTM bits in Somasegar's blog .
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We have released the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 RC0 VPC image. You can download this image from Partner Source . If you need access then work with your PAM (Partner Account Manager). Contents of VPC Image Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (RC0) Microsoft Dynamics
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Windows Live Quick Applications Beta provides customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows Live services and is offered as a source code download for you to use today. Play, learn and use the websites
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In the spirit of continuing to wet your appetite for the next CTP of SQL Server 2008, I thought I would give you a glimpse of the T-SQL Intellisense functionality that is coming for SQL Server Management Studio...
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A few days ago I described the new date and time data types coming in SQL Server 2008. To get the complete picture, we need to see what it looks like to use those new types from .NET Code. The necessary changes to ADO .NET come in a few places, namely
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Today at Supercomputing 2007 (SC07), Microsoft announced the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, dubbed Windows HPC Server 2008 and also announced the availability of the Beta 1 release of the product. This major release will provide dramatic
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Free eLearning Collection 6187: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has shipped. Clinic 6188: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Enterprise Data Platform In this 1-hour on-line clinic, IT Professionals will learn about the new features in
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As blogged about on the Windows Server blog , what was previously referred to as Windows Server virtualization or codename "Viridian" has now been officially named Microsoft Hyper-V Server. The aforementioned blog posting also lists the various Windows
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Gianpaolo Carraro and his team have put together a white paper that discusses the sometimes quirky relationship between ISVs wanting to deliver their software as a service (SaaS) application and their hosters. ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from
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Ayman Shoukry has announced an update to Visual Studio 2008 that is a new release of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). Using these components, developers will be able to create applications with the “look & feel” of Microsoft’s most popular
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Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008. Download the Community Technical Preview
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Total Training has agreed to give a 25% discount on a one year subscription to their Microsoft on-line training. For only $187.50 (regularly $250) you can access all of the titles in the subscription (see below) as well as anything added over the
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So, I'm one of those people that made a mad rush to the download the latest CTP of PowerShell v2 when it came out this week, but I was cautioned in advance and if you are interested, you should read this first as well: The PowerShell V2 CTP is not for
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Today we announced the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API availability in production – get it now for your blog or website – great way to connect with customers! - Messenger IM Control allows a user to publish their presence and receive
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The first community technology preview (CTP) for the Microsoft Sync Framework (MSF) has been released. The release consists of Sync Framework Runtime Sync Services for File Systems Sync Services for ADO.NET In addition, the preview includes documentation,
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F# (pronounced "F sharp") is a functional programming language developed at Microsoft Research that targets developers dealing with concurrency and those in areas of finanical, scientific and technical, and academics. S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice
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Today during his keynote address at the Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona, S. Soma Somasegar, Corporate VP of Developer Division announced that the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 will release by the end of November. Read more in
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SQL Server 2008 introduces some long awaited new data types for representing dates and times. These include separate types for date and time, a high precision datetime type (datetime2), and a type that includes timezone information (datetimeoffset). The
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ISV's often ask whether to use BizTalk Server or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for a process related solution. The answer to use WF when building an application and BizTalk when a server product is required. Because the programming model for BizTalk
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So, you are developing an application to run on SharePoint 2007, or WSS 3.0, and you hate to use CAML. Up until now it would be an issue, but thanks to Bart de Smet you can now use LINQ (part of .NET 3.5) to querying your SharePoint lists just like
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For those developing on the Microsoft platform, there are free tools now available to test your applications for Windows Server 2008 compatibility. You can get ahold of these by enrolling at http://www.innovateonwindowsserver.com . You can get the bits
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